Category: philosopher
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America is another name for opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
Confucius
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It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
Soren Kierkegaard
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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
Aristotle
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
Michel de Montaigne
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It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
Henry David Thoreau
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If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
Soren Kierkegaard
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When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
John Ruskin
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The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men’s lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.
John Ruskin